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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet A. 2018 Feb;176(2):337–350. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.38580

Figure 5: Aortic root growth vs. age in 3 patients, pediatric and adult.

Figure 5:

Aortic size is displayed as Z-scores in all individuals to allow for comparison. (A) Female child (#85) has a normal Z score at birth, but over the next 10 years, her aortic root z-scores have increased to ~5. (B) #37 Female child (#37) was born with a dilated aorta that increased to a Z score of 11.9, before her aneurysm surgery. Root size was normalized by surgery. Black arrow indicates timing of aortic aneurysm surgery. (C) Middle-age adult female (#36) who had normal aortic root Z scores on initial imaging, with a rapid increase in aortic root size between age 35 and 41 years of age. Aortic root size was 4.2 cm (Z score = 5.4) at time of death. Black arrow denotes timing of patient demise.